Titres dans Fiction biographique

Andrea llega a Barcelona, con una maleta llena de libros, para estudiar letras. Sus ilusiones chocan de inmediato con el ambiente de tensión y violencia que reina en casa de su abuela. El sórdido microcosmos familiar y la frágil cordialidad de sus relaciones universitarias, centradas en la luminosa Ena, acaban convergiendo en un diálogo dramático.

Sam is dead, which means that Elsie Jane has just lost the brilliant, sensitive man she planned to grow old with. The early days of grief are a fog of work and single parenting. Too restless to sleep, Elsie pores over Sam's old love letters, paces her house, and bickers with the ghosts of Sam and her dead parents night after night. As the year unfolds, she develops an obsession with a local murder mystery, attends a series of disastrous internet dates in search of a "replacement soulmate," and solicits a space-time wizard via Craigslist.

The award-winning Augustine Institute Radio Theatre presents The Victory of Joan of Arc, the remarkable true story of a 15th-century French peasant girl who claimed she’d been sent by God to drive the English invaders out of France and place the true king on the throne. Featuring over 50 actors, cinematic sound and original score, listeners will fully experience Joan’s relentless bravery and determination against all obstacles to change the course of history.

It was a love so strong, a king renounced his kingdom—all for that woman. Or was she just an escape route for a monarch who never wanted to rule? Bestselling author Wendy Holden takes an intimate look at one of the most notorious scandals of the 20th century. 1928. A middle-aged foreigner...

En el año 2014, Carlos Carballo es arrestado por intentar robar de un museo el traje de baño de Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, líder político asesinado en Bogotá en 1948. Carballo es un hombre atormentado que busca señales para desentrañar los misterios de un pasado que lo obsesiona. Pero nadie, ni siquiera sus amigos más cercanos, sospecha las razones profundas de su obsesión. ¿Qué conecta los asesinatos de Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, cuya muerte partió en dos la historia de Colombia, y de John F. Kennedy?

Dave seemed to have it all. A successful career, a loving family, the respect of everyone around him. But behind the polished surface, he was drinking in secret, convincing himself it wasn’t a problem. No arrests. No missed meetings. Just a few drinks to relax… The Double Life of a High-Functioning Alcoholic is a raw, memoir-style novel inspired by Howard Kane’s own sobriety journey. It takes you inside the hidden world of high-functioning addiction where success becomes a mask, denial runs deep, and every drink feels both normal and dangerous.

"When you're done binge-watching The Crown, pick up this multifaceted wartime thriller." —Kirkus Reviews As London endures nightly German bombings, Britain’s secret service whisks the princesses Elizabeth and Margaret from England, seeking safety for the young royals on an old estate in...

After the death of his prime minister, Cardinal Mazarin, 22-year-old Louis steps in to govern France. He’s still a young man, but one who, as king, willfully takes everything he can get—including his brother’s wife. As the love affair between Louis and Princess Henriette burns, it sets the kingdom on the road to unmistakable scandal and conflict with the Vatican. Every woman wants him. He must face what he is willing to sacrifice for love.

Few wars have been fought by each side with greater intensity of conviction in the rightness of its cause or with more abundant personal heroism than the War Between the States. The story begins with a great responsibility falling on Vincent Wingfield, the teenage son of a widowed Virginia plantation owner. Vincent must decide what course of action he should take when a problem arises on the plantation.

England, 1422: Owen Tudor, a Welsh servant, waits in Windsor Castle to meet his new mistress, the beautiful and lonely Queen Catherine of Valois, widow of the warrior king, Henry V. Her infant son is crowned king of England and France, and while the country simmers on the brink of civil war, Owen becomes her protector. They fall in love, risking Owen's life and Queen Catherine's reputation, but how do they found the dynasty that changes British history - the Tudors?

History tells us that the intelligent, wealthy, and powerful Margaret of York had everything any woman could want, except for love. The acclaimed author of A Rose for the Crown takes us between the lines of history and into her heart. It is 1461. Edward, son of Richard of York, ascends to the...

When two brave women flee from the Communist Red Scare, they soon discover that no future is free from the past. Amid the glitz and glamour of 1950s New York, Phoebe Adler pursues her dream of screenwriting. A dream that turns into a living nightmare when she is blacklisted—caught in the Red...

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, the first novel Nabokov wrote in English, is a tantalizing literary mystery in which a writer’s half brother searches to unravel the enigma of the life of the famous author of Albinos in Black, The Back of the Moon, and Doubtful Asphodel. A characteristically cunning play on identity and deception, the novel concludes “ I am Sebastian, or Sebastian is I, or perhaps we both are someone whom neither of us knows.”

Un soir de vent noir, Mouchette, 14 ans, emprunte les bois pour retourner dans son foyer, une masure imprégnée de misère, d’alcoolisme et de maladie. La pluie s’abat sur la jeune fille lorsqu’elle croise le chemin d’Arsène, qui lui propose de s’abriter chez lui. L’homme l’enivre d’histoires extraordinaires pour l’impressionner. Le genièvre réchauffe la gorge et échauffe le corps du braconnier. Mouchette, sans défense, est violée. Quelque temps plus tard, sa mère décède sans que l’enfant ait pu lui confier son terrible fardeau, ce sentiment de honte qui ne la quittera plus, jusqu’au drame.

From the bestselling author of The Pale Blue Eye comes a brilliantly profound and empathetic story about Oscar Wilde's wife Constance and their two sons in the aftermath of the famous playwright's imprisonment for homosexuality, told against the backdrop of Victorian England and World War I. ...

"Aucun travail", "Manque de bases", "Le troisième trimestre sera déterminant", "N'a rien fait, rien rendu". Il les a connus, les bulletins de notes accablants, et la rage de ne pas comprendre. Le jeune cancre Daniel Pennacchioni, devenu professeur de français et écrivain renommé, étudie cette figure du folklore populaire en lui donnant ses lettres de noblesse, en lui restituant aussi son poids d'angoisse et de douleur.

“A powerful and important tale of love and war, art and family…I was transported.” —Allison Pataki, New York Times bestselling author “Albanese artfully weaves Adele’s story with Maria’s harrowing life under the Nazis, but it’s hard to read Stolen Beauty without seeing ugly...

Es la última frase del diario escrito por un hombre que murió abandonado en el corazón de la salvación amazónica colombiana. A partir de allí, el autor rastreo la historia durante cuatro años y, tras hallar a los personajes que la protagonizaron, recogió sus versiones, exploro los lugares donde ocurrieron los hechos y apoyándose en los documentos oficiales derivados de la investigación que suscitó el hecho.

L’histoire d’Hélène Hannemann qui, grâce à son héroïsme, a rendu sa dignité à tout son village. Ce roman est inspiré de la véritable histoire d’une courageuse infirmière allemande chargée de prendre soin des prisonniers les plus jeunes d’Auschwitz. Berceuse d’Auschwitz rend hommage à Hélène Hannemann, une femme qui a tout sacrifié pour sa famille et farouchement lutté pour les enfants qu’elle espérait sauver. Par une matinée ordinaire de 1943, Hélène Hannemann prépare ses cinq enfants pour le jour où la police allemande débarquera chez elle.

A sumptuous novel based on the fascinating true story of La Belle Époque icon Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon, who shattered the boundaries of fashion with her magnificently sensual and enchantingly unique design from the USA Today bestselling author of In Royal Service to the Queen. Lucy Duff Gordon...